BREAKING: First case of Ebola confirmed in the US

[Gamma Male]

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/close-home-first-case-ebola-diagnosed-u-s-cdc-confirms-n215231

ARGAEYHFFHJAAAAA!!!!!! I LIVE NEAR DALLAS! FUUUUUCCCKKKK!!!!!


Well, I'm off to Alaska. I'll see ya peeps later.

[CosmicNoodle]

I HIGHLY doubt this is anything to worry about, now that it is actually effecting there own citizens the chances are the US will get off it's ass and eradiacte it at all costs.

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And something I'd like to point out, why do you care more now? It's as if when it was contained to Africa it waqs a small blip in the news, 3rd page news, no one really cared about it at all, but now that it's on home turf its headline news, people raging about it, and I'm just sitting here like "Ohh my god, 1 person has an infection that thousands have!!...wait...so?", like suddenly because it was a white dude everyone sits up and pays attention.

[thatcountrykid]

I HIGHLY doubt this is anything to worry about, now that it is actually effecting there own citizens the chances are the US will get off it's ass and eradiacte it at all costs.

Blamed if we do blamed if we don't.


Well good thing we've stocked up on some food and ammo.

[ksdnfkfr]

Well, I'm off to Alaska. I'll see ya peeps later.

Don't forget to stop by and say hi on your way up.

[Gamma Male]

Don't forget to stop by and say hi on your way up.

Allrighty.


And when I get there I'll take lots of pictures of you and post them all to VT. MWHUAHAHAHAHAHA :evil2:

[ksdnfkfr]

Allrighty.


And when I get there I'll take lots of pictures of you and post them all to VT. MWHUAHAHAHAHAHA :evil2:

I'm debating which would be worse, that, or contracting ebola....

[James Dean]

Someone who was travelling probably spread it there. I guess this is when it starts to get scary. Here I am thinking in ignorance that it won't come to the United States. We just have to be more careful now because it only takes one person for it to become an epidemic.

[Vlerchan]

Cosmic Noodle is right.

If it hits the US bad then it becomes extra profitable for drugs companies to concentrate on creating a cure.

Sadly, there is still no cure for Ebola. But a promising drug from a publicly traded Canadian biotech firm is being used to treat the disease in West Africa. And Wall Street has taken notice.

Tekmira Pharmaceuticals (TKMR), which CNNMoney first wrote about last month, was up nearly 4% Tuesday following a 17% pop on Monday.

The reason for the surge? Tekmira said Monday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has set up a “framework” to allow Tekmira to give its TKM-Ebola drug to test subjects “with confirmed or suspected Ebola virus infections.”

[ http://buzz.money.cnn.com/2014/09/23/ebola-drug-tekmira-stock/

If it's just affecting poor people then there's not much reason to shift away (significantly) from producing anti-acne cream for vain Western teens.

[CosmicNoodle]

Blamed if we do blamed if we don't.


Well good thing we've stocked up on some food and ammo.

Your right, ammo is importanthere! What would you do is you couldn't shoot people!?

[Horatio Nelson]

This is BS, he was in Liberia, it's not like he was sitting on his couch watching the 7 O' clock news and got sick all of a sudden.


And Ebola only spreads in bodily fluids, not in the air. “Ebola is a virus. It’s a virus that is easy to kill by washing your hands. It’s easy to stop by using gloves and barrier precautions,” Frieden said. “The issue is not that Ebola is highly infectious. The issue with Ebola is that the stakes are so high. People are infectious with Ebola when they are sick.”

This is the number one reason I don't it see it becoming an epidemic in the US. Plus:

Ebola’s been around for decades and doctors understand it pretty well. People do not infect others after they get better, and they do not seem to always be particularly infectious early on in the disease — when they first get a fever, for example. The virus has to build up in the body. The most infectious people are those just about to die or who have just died, which is why burying Ebola victims is especially dangerous.

Have you ever seen an African burial ceremony? They're like laying on the dead body and shit. It's no bueno.

[phuckphace]

Zach knows what's up. Africa is a gargantuan petri dish where all kinds of nasties mutate and spread like a thermite fire in an oil refinery. from what I can gather, ebola is transmitted in pretty much the same ways as HIV, and if that's the case then my own chances of catching it are near zero at least. tl;dr don't be a dirty ratchet bastard and you're golden

[thatcountrykid]

Your right, ammo is importanthere! What would you do is you couldn't shoot people!?

Firearms are a security. I'm not saying just shoot people. People will go crazy and if there is an epidemic shit will be bad

[CosmicNoodle]

Firearms are a security. I'm not saying just shoot people. People will go crazy and if there is an epidemic shit will be bad

Your very American ain't you? Shooting things is clearly the only way to keep yourself safe. One day the US will come across the amazing concept of none lethal action.

[phuckphace]

Firearms are a security. I'm not saying just shoot people. People will go crazy and if there is an epidemic shit will be bad

again, ebola = HIV in terms of transmission routes. an ebola epidemic isn't going to be some kind of Walking Dead scenario were everybody gets infected. realistically, ebola will mostly affect needle junkies and those with poor sexual hygiene/habits, which is exactly how HIV/AIDS already works. the major difference being, AIDS takes years to kill you while ebola takes about two weeks. nobody's looting and rioting over AIDS and I don't think there's any reason why ebola would be different, given how unlikely it is to catch if you aren't nasty.

I'm just waiting for the case maps of my state to start filling up and I'll bet money that they'll overlap perfectly with the lowest-income areas on the demographics map

[CosmicNoodle]

again, ebola = HIV in terms of transmission routes. an ebola epidemic isn't going to be some kind of Walking Dead scenario were everybody gets infected. realistically, ebola will mostly affect needle junkies and those with poor sexual hygiene/habits, which is exactly how HIV/AIDS already works. the major difference being, AIDS takes years to kill you while ebola takes about two weeks. nobody's looting and rioting over AIDS and I don't think there's any reason why ebola would be different, given how unlikely it is to catch if you aren't nasty.

I'm just waiting for the case maps of my state to start filling up and I'll bet money that they'll overlap perfectly with the lowest-income areas on the demographics map

I agree with PhuckPhace

[Dalcourt]

Your very American ain't you? Shooting things is clearly the only way to keep yourself safe. One day the US will coem across the amazing concept of none lethal action.

Lol, I don't think I'll get old enough to see US citizens want to give up their weapons.

Anyway back on topic...in my opinion it wad just a matter of time that the virus spreads from Africa to other places...that's what we have to live with in our globalised world.
Of course it's bad but when it threatens the Western world maybe they work on medication and solutions.

[CosmicNoodle]

Lol, I don't think I'll get old enough to see US citizens want to give up their weapons.

Anyway back on topic...in my opinion it wad just a matter of time that the virus spreads from Africa to other places...that's what we have to live with in our globalised world.
Of course it's bad but when it threatens the Western world maybe they work on medication and solutions.

This basically sums up how I feel

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[thatcountrykid]

Your very American ain't you? Shooting things is clearly the only way to keep yourself safe. One day the US will come across the amazing concept of none lethal action.

You've been coming off very deragatory lately. Something bothering you?

You must think I want shoot someone. I know there is non lethal action and I prefer it over killing someone but there are a lot of times where you can't pussy foot around and shit needs to get done so when it comes to my safety I will always take the advantage of a gun versus getting physical and possibly getting hurt.

[CosmicNoodle]

You've been coming off very deragatory lately. Something bothering you?

You must think I want shoot someone. I know there is non lethal action and I prefer it over killing someone but there are a lot of times where you can't pussy foot around and shit needs to get done so when it comes to my safety I will always take the advantage of a gun versus getting physical and possibly getting hurt.

In case you havent noticed from my recent posts I've started sekf harming again, badly, my best friend walked out and left me and I'm about to fail my college course, thats whats bothering me. So yes, I will come across as derogitiory, ikely for the next few weeks, yep, I'm an asshole, and unless shit drastically chnages I'm gonna be like this for a long while, so deal with it.

Of course I don't think you want to shoot someone, but I think your logic is extremly flawed, its safer to shoot someone? Obviously discarhging a firearm in a populated city is much safer than none volient methods.
We've been raised in different cultures, mine, where shooting unarmed peopole is FOR SOME INSANE REASON though of as bad, and yours, where it's better to kill someone than to take a risk.

[Body odah Man]

I predict that this ebola is going to be as bad as the Athenian Great Plague. I hope I am wrong, but I fear I am not. May God watch over our soulds and help us all.

[ksdnfkfr]

Your very American ain't you? Shooting things is clearly the only way to keep yourself safe. One day the US will come across the amazing concept of none lethal action.

I think that's a stereotype. The person you're addressing has "Your ProfesionalRedneck" as his sig, so of course it's going to be about being stocked up on provisions and fully loaded when the plague or the terrorists (used to be the commies) takes over the US. But I don't think most of us have that attitude.

There's big money in this for survival stores, gun and ammo manufacturers, pharmacy companies and especially the media. Panic = $$$$. Thousands more people will die in vehicle related accidents within the next 365 days than will die from ebola. People will freak over the idea of a plague getting them, but won't bother to fasten their seat belt.

[Ben_Frost]

It's time to put the U.S. preventive care system to the test.

[Vlerchan]

Unless someone with Ebola is about to rape you then I can't imagine why you'd want to shoot them.

[Gamma Male]

Am I the only one secretly hoping the virus mutates and wipes out like half the American population? I'm not evil or anything, it just seems like it would be really fun to hear about on CNN.

[CosmicNoodle]

Am I the only one secretly hoping the virus mutates and wipes out like half the American population? I'm not evil or anything, it just seems like it would be really fun to hear about on CNN.

How about just the rednacks, republicans, prudes and homophobes....wait....thats like 90%

[Plane And Simple]

This has turned into a flamewar, which is by no means tolerated in VT. OP, You're free to open this up in ROTW again, but it'll be closed if any of the participants start bashing each other up again

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